Pours a rich red brown color with a fluffy head. Aroma is a combination of smokey sweet, with a faint baking smell. First taste is entirely smokey, but aftertaste is a tasty blend of toffee, caramel and coffee. Almost like a Milky Way...

Pours a deep copper, dense white head with a touch of burnt toffy on the nose. Caramal flavour from the crystal, no hops, strongly malt dominated, sweet almost cloying but rich and complex with lovely mouth feel. Finish is clean with a hint of alcohol waming and slightly spicy. would go great with a sticky date pudding.

Aroma is toasty with stone fruit but very little alcohol. My bottle poured black into the tulip glass with a small beige head but shows reflections of red when the torch shines into it. Roasted malt flavours give way to light fruity flavours along with some malty mocha. This has a noticeable hop bitter aftertaste similar to cascade bittered ales. Decent mouthfeel and fairly well carbonated.

Beer pours light cooper brown with off white head that is retained. Aromas is decent, malty but the ABV is a bit too apparant. Flavor is a bit better than the aroma. Flavor is lightly malty with a little bitterness and the brew warms the tummy when it hits. Pretty nice beer.

Clear copper with a thin light tan head and a deep caramel malt aroma. Crisp sweet malty body with a light bitterness throughout. Dry finish hides the alcohol quite well. A respectable and drinkable English strong ale from Down Under.

UPDATED: OCT 16, 2003 As I explore my way through the James Squire range the taste and quality of beer keeps dropping. The worst that Ive had so far. The afteratste was like posion acid burning my tongue!

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